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, CIGAR SHAPER. No. 863,301. Patented May 17, 1887.

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EDl/VARD WV. SEYMOUR, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HULL,

GRUMMOND & 00.,

OF SAME PLACE.

ClGAR SHAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 363,301, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed March 16, 1887. Serial No. 231,094. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, EDWARD W. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broorne and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gigar-Shapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaiusto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar partsthroughout the several views.

My invention is that of a press in which to shape crooked cigars, and so shaped that the cigars may be packed each way of the box and have them fit in snugly, whether the courses or alternate cigars in each course are reversed or not. The press is also fitted with guards at each end to keep the cigars from widening out under-pressure, thus making a cigar when pressed of S shape lengthwise and square in cross-section.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is the top or follower of the press; Fig. 2, the bed across which the cigars are laid; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the press when the two parts are turned together, showing their corresponding shapes.

A, Fig. 2, is a bed, of wood or other solid material, having in cross-section an undulating surface across the center, of the shape shown in the drawings, and having its surface near one edge turned sharply down, and atthe same distance from the other edge turned up at the same angle. The undulation and angle on the one side are the reverse of the other-- that is, that the cigar which fits the press at one side of the dotted lines shown in the drawings, when changed ends with and turned the other side up, will exactly fit the other side. At one side the bed has a rail or cushion, A, against which the ends of the cigars are placed, so that all may be turned alike. They are laid the butt of one and the tip of the next against the rail, and thus the rank is kept square across the bed. The guards a a at the ends of the bed project far enough above the bed at its highest point to equal the thickness of the unpressed cigar, so that when the follower is put on no part of the end cigar shall be caught on the guard.

The follower B, Fig. 1, when turned down, is the complement of the bed A, and has flattened ends I) b, to rest upon the guards to a, with holes to receive the pins to hold it in place.

The width of opening between the forms,

and consequently the thickness of the cigars after pressure, is regulated by the height of the guards a a, as they are made to operate as stops to the follower. If greater thickness is desired, a strip of leather between regulates this.

It is not claimed that this device adds any new qualities to the cigar, but that it enables themanufacturers to give to a particular kind of cigars a peculiar shape, which shall distinguish them from all others, and at the same time allows of packing them with but very little waste of space. As the cigars are put in the press immediately after they are made, they are not broken under the pressure, but conform readily to the shape of the press and must be left in until partially dry, when they may be packed and left to complete dryingin the box.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cigar-shaper having a bedwith undulating center and angles near each edge, one side from the center line being the reverse of the other, and having 'a rail or stop at one side and guards at the ends, in combination with a follower which is the complement of the bed, and having flattened spaces to rest on the guards of the bed, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD \V. SEYMOUR.

lVitnesscs:

A. L. PINE, THOMAS THORNE. 

